The Australians vote in the elections with their eyes on the cost of living, Trump

On Saturday, the Australians voted in national elections. Opinion polls are likely to prefer to prefer Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz because of the conservative opposition, as it overwhelmed US policies Donald Trump volatile policies for change.

Both the two main parties in Australia focused on ventilation fears of the cost of living, but opinion polls show that global uncertainty is driven by Trump’s definitions, which quickly stopped became a higher issue for voters during the campaign.

Albaniz said in televised comments from Melbourne that his government in the middle was “truly strong foundations.”

“We have real wages that rise, and we have inflation,” the Prime Minister said before traveling to his hometown in Sydney to give his vote.

Albaniz, who ended a five -week electoral campaign, pledged to improve the ability to afford housing and enhance the comprehensive health care system in Australia during his second term.

The opposition leader, Peter Daton, also began his day in Melbourne, a major battlefield, urged voters to choose his liberal national alliance “to restore our country to the right track”, before heading to Queensland.

“I think that many quiet Australians have come out today to support the coalition,” said Dateon after submitting his vote in the Brisbane region, which he carried with the difficulty of the liberal party.

The elections come less than a week after the liberal party in Canada Return In a major political return, supported by a violent reaction against the Trump tariff and his remarks to make Canada the 51st American state.

The Labor Party tried to throw the former man Dateon, who pledged to reduce migration sharply and reduce thousands of public service jobs, as a governor of Trump Light, in the hope that some negative feelings of Australians will be rubbed towards the US President, the opposition leader.

Dutton sought to stay away from comparisons with Trump’s lawyer Eileon Musk, who is planning the agency, but he failed to work after the United States put a tariff on Australia. Dateon has led opinion polls since February.

Australia is a close American security ally and generally runs a trade deficit with the United States. However, Trump’s tariff was not carried out, as it imposed a 10 percent duty on Australian exports.

The polls were opened in Australia – among the few democracies with mandatory voting – at 8 am, although a record out of 18 million qualified voters have already made their votes before Saturday.

Trump’s effect?

Volunteers in local polling stations She launched barbecue parties Some voters arrived at the seashore to make the polling cards wearing narrow swimming trunks.

In the Pondi suburb in Sydney, the voter Ben McClaski said he was optimistic about the Labor Party in a second state.

The engineer, 41, said: “I am a little positive. We hope that the government of a minority and the vegetables will get a balance in power.”

Lucy Tunag, a 28 -year -old child, said that the high cost of living was in front of her in the ballot box.

“I feel the cost of living and also the child’s care because this is a major problem I find. There must be more teachers,” Tunag said.

Political strategists said that Trump was not likely to be the decisive factor in the elections-Albanz runs a strong campaign, and Daton made errors, including a short-term proposal to ban public employees working from the home. But Trump’s influence, they added, added to the reservations of the voters who became more than the risks.

In the capital Canberra, Matthew Smith, 49, said he was liberal throughout his life, but this time a separate voice.

Smith said: “I felt that over the past two years, Daton has taken a turn as it became very popular. I see him a little like Trump,” Smith said.

“I think he took the liberal brand away from where you should be,” he added.